Diana Cassady’s research while affiliated with University of California, Davis and other places

... Recent analyses have identified significant state-wide disparities in "Purchase of Service" (POS) expenditures from California's Department of Developmental Services (DDS). Analyses of DDS Purchase of Service administrative data reveal disparities in service use and expenditures for schoolage youth (ages 7 to 16) and for people who are racial/ ethnic minorities (Harrington & Kang, 2016;Leigh et al., 2016). Specifically, Latino people had the lowest annual service expenditures across diagnosis and age groups compared to other racial and ethnic groups (Leigh et al., 2016). ...

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Community-Led Adaptations of a Promotora-Delivered Intervention for Latino Families of Youth with Developmental Disabilities

... In an exploratory analysis, we also aimed to assess whether social norms and attitudes changed following election-related media campaigns and implementation of SSB taxes in Oakland and San Francisco, CA relative to nearby comparison cities (Berkeley, which had a pre-existing SSB tax, and Richmond, which had no SSB tax). Considering that lower-income populations experience frequently targeted marketing of SSBs and have a greater burden of dietrelated disease, the current study focuses on populations living in lower-income neighborhoods [18][19][20]. ...

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De-normalizing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption: effects of tax measures on social norms and attitudes in the California Bay Area

... suggesting that students with low nutritional knowledge were 3.0 times more likely to have excess body fat compared to those with high nutritional knowledge. Nutritional knowledge forms the foundation of understanding food and its nutritional content, guiding informed food choices based on quality and quantity [28,29]. Individuals with high nutritional knowledge tend to have better nutritional status [29,30]. ...

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Effect of Food Sources on Body Fat Percentage of Students at Diponegoro University, Indonesia

... Women expressed di culty in distinguishing between trustworthy and misleading online content, emphasising the need for enhanced digital literacy. These ndings resonate with prior research, indicating challenges in comprehending numerical data (33) and evaluating nutritional content (34). While there has been positive acceptability and engagement with the use of preconception digital interventions (35), our study suggests that women need to be empowered with practical skills as well as ability to critically assess information encountered online. ...

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Enablers and Barriers to Preconception Dietary Behaviours: A Mixed Method Study with Women of Reproductive Age

... Organizational health literacy focuses on the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others (HSS, 2021). At the individual level, adequate health literacy skills play a pivotal role in preventing and managing chronic diseases and other health concerns (Miller et al., 2015). Conversely, limited health literacy has been linked to unhealthy lifestyles, including smoking, poor diet, and lack of physical activity, all of which increase the risk of mortality and premature death (Mayberry et al., 2018;Wolf et al., 2007). ...

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Determining the Health Literacy Skills of Extension Audiences in Maryland

... To address the limitations of standardized tutorials, a variety of approaches to research ethics training have been developed across different research contexts. For example, Jetter et al. [20] supplemented a self-administered research ethics course designed for university researchers with a two-part "round table seminar" to discuss the content of the Belmont report and highlight issues of particular relevance to American Indian/Alaskan Native communities. Yonas et al. [12] created flexible research ethics training resources for academic and community partners that can be delivered in-person or online and have been deployed in a wide variety of CBPR contexts in the US. ...

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Community-Engaged Research Ethics Training (CERET): developing accessible and relevant research ethics training for community-based participatory research with people with lived and living experience using illicit drugs and harm reduction workers

... For example, Specht and Szot 9 tested six GPS receivers and found that logging receivers, such as Garmin Forerunner 310XT, demonstrated the highest accuracy in determining positions. In another similar research, four wearable GPS monitors were compared while four adults walked a distance of 1.24 km and the most accurate device was Garmin Forerunner 205. 10 Using a similar methodological approach, Lee et al. 11 chose four low cost GPS minotors and found that all devices were valid for distance estimation, with Garmin 60 to be the most accurate. ...

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Comparing the Validity of a GPS Monitor and a Smartphone Application to Measure Physical Activity

... 2 In response, some landlords have established smokefree policies for their housing units, and some cities have established such policies for all multi-unit housing within their jurisdictions. 3 The military is in effect the largest landlord in the U.S., with control over approximately 630,000 units of housing, including about 134,000 family units, and barracks space (for single enlisted personnel) for 500,000, with locations in all 50 states, as well as in numerous countries around the world. Military personnel who live in such housing frequently have little or no control over whether to stay there. ...

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Tobacco Use Policy in Military Housing

... The themes identified in this case study are consistent with previous research on local, state, and national tobacco control policies that found that, among others, policy champions or change agents [7,[42][43][44], engagement with youth advocates [7,45], supporting data, and other localities previously enacting the policy influenced adoption [42]. Past studies also suggest that the absence of supporting data may have hampered states which attempted to adopt T21 early [6,7], but in later years, the IOM report proved powerful enough to elevate the attention of T21 as a tool to reduce youth tobacco use. ...

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Adoption of Tobacco 21: A Cross-Case Analysis of Ten US States

... CHWs have historically served as community health liaisons, but there was an additional need during the COVID-19 pandemic for CHWs to provide critical services to refugee and immigrant communities, like providing support for case investigation and contact tracing (CICT), facilitating access to vaccines, and conducting education and outreach (7,10,11). With regard to CICT and vaccine access, refugee and immigrant communities faced overlapping challenges due to different cultural practices around health and healthcare, difficulties accessing health information and services, community concerns about vaccines and, sometimes, distrust of government or health systems (12,13). As for education and outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic challenged public health departments across the United States to develop clear messaging for diverse populations. ...

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“It spreads like wildfire”: mothers’ gatherings for vaccine acceptance